In order to meet people's consumption demand for high-quality food and dishes, prefabricated food bags can ensure the freshness and original flavor of dishes and ingredients to the greatest extent, save the trouble of purchasing ingredients and simplify the production steps. Through simple cooking methods such as heating or steaming, it can become delicious family banquet dishes and restaurant specialties.
Advantages of prefabricated dishes: providing cooking convenience and bringing consumers a sense of accomplishment in cooking; It brings a good taste, and the semi-finished food has barriers to processing technology, which is difficult for individual consumers to complete at home; Food safety is better than take-away, but it is different from the sauce and halogen products in deli; The price is cheaper. Compared with restaurant dishes, the price of semi-finished dishes is much more favorable.
Semi-cooked vegetables belong to frozen food and secondary processed food, and most of them are packaged and sold, which easily leads to cross flavor of foods with different properties and storage conditions. During storage, transportation, processing and repeated cooking, some vitamins in semi-finished vegetables will be destroyed and lost. If seasonings such as oil and salt are added in advance, harmful nitrite substances may also be produced.
Types of pre-cooked dishes
1. Ready-to-eat food: refers to pre-made preparations that can be eaten directly after opening, including ready-to-eat snacks (soaking feet and chicken feet) and canned food, which belongs to the retail category.
2. Convenience food: refers to food that can only be eaten by heating. There are generally two ways to preserve this kind of food after processing: cold storage and normal temperature. Quick-frozen dumplings, instant noodles, instant hot pot and other foods also belong to this kind of prefabricated dishes.
3. Ready-to-eat food: refers to food raw materials and necessary condiments that can be packaged, refrigerated or stored at room temperature, and can be immediately put into a pot for conditioning. This kind of prefabricated dish belongs to the category of semi-finished products and has a certain market share in retail and catering industries.
4. Ready-to-eat food: This kind of food can also be called cooking raw food or semi-finished clean vegetables, which refers to semi-finished raw food with side dishes after preliminary processing such as cleaning and cutting.